Andrew Morgan wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
This script requires a password, which means you have to run it
interactively or else put the password in a file. I'm looking for a
noninteractive way to create a mailbox without having to put a
password in a file.
Let's think about this... You're looking for a way to have admin
privileges without authenticating for them? Sounds like trouble to
me... :)
You may use sudo. This allows you to give an unprivileged user the right
to su root or whatever and run a given set of command on behalf of that
user. You need no password anywhere. That's what we're using here to
allow the hotline staff to create accounts from their own unpriviledged
user.
Don't know exactly where I got sudo from, but I'm sure you'll find the
right package, at least a Google search gives many interesting results.
Hope this helps
Pascal
Probably your only alternative is to write something that directly
modifies the mailboxes database, creates the requisite directories,
etc, but that is bound to break something eventually.
Andy
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